Is the vote in the most recent local elections bringing again to life one century old borders in Western Ukraine? For the very last fifteen or twenty years, we have heard about the idea of the two Ukraines: one being pro-Western and mainly ethnic Ukrainian (west and centre of the country), the other one being pro-Kremlin and mainly ethnic Russian (south and east), with a blurred boundary between them. But what if the growing support to Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda is reviving an old, alternative political divide dating from the period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire? Continue reading →